I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.